Push pin package



2, 1955 H. s. HOLLAND 2,714,449

PUSH PIN PACKAGE Filed July 17, 1952 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS United States Patent Ofitice Zji k i ifi Patented Aug. 2, 1955 PUSH PIN PACKAGE Herbert S. Holland, Orange, C0nn., assignor to The Waterbury Tack Company, Inc., Shelton, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application July 17, 1952, Serial No. 299,379 4 Claims. (Cl. 206-66) This invention relates to a new and improved package for push pins and similar articles to facilitate the shipment thereof, and a simple, compact, attractive package which is easy and convenient to handle and use.

A push pin is a sharp pointed article whose shank resembles a pin, and has a long made of glass which is considerably larger in diameter than the shank portion. Under the present method of marketing push pins, they are thrust into the broad side or face of a relatively stiff cardboard or placard in parallel rows at substantially uniform intervals throughout the area of the face of said board with the relatively thick head of each of the push pins protruding completely above the surface of the board. In shipping and in other types of handling to which these packages are put, the relatively thick head portion of the push pin occasionally breaks off from the pin, is bent, or the pin falls off the board in handling. In addition, the elongate head protrudes substantially from the relatively thin board or placard, and this arrangement detracts from the appearance of the package itself.

An object of the present invention is to provide an improved package for push pins and similar articles which will prevent them from breaking, bending, or coming free from the package in shipment or in other treatment in which they may be roughly handled.

Another object of the invention is to provide a package for push pins and similar articles which, While carrying the normal amount of push pins carried by the present form of push pin package, will nevertheless not have the push pin heads and part of the pin portion protruding from the face of the package. but instead will present a compact, attractive unit which, even when the push pins are in place thereon, will have no projections. It will instead present a unit having unbroken side lines with neither substantial indentations nor projections. Stated otherwise, the package forms a neat regular rectangular unit. w

Another object of the invention is to provide a package for push pins or the like which is extremely simple to construct and economical to manufacture.

Other objects of the present invention are hereinafter more fully described and shown in the accompanying drawing.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the push pin package embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a front view of a modified form of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a front view of the present invention with an enveloping sleeve thereover, showing the placard of the present invention with the push pins thereon in dotted lines.

Fig. 6 is a top view of the package shown in Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawing which illustrates several embodiments of this invention as exemplary thereof, the

head portion frequently Cit present push pin package consists of a carrier for the push pins consisting of a stiff relatively thick block i having substantially U-shaped blanked out portions or recesses 2 in opposite edges thereof, and a plurality of push pins 3 inserted in the said recesses so as to be located at substantially uniform intervals throughout the area of said recesses.

The block 1 is made of suitable material such as laminated cardboard, etc., which can be readily penetrated by the points of the push pins and is of sufiicient thickness to be relatively rigid and to effectively retain the push pins when they are thrust into the block as shown, although permitting the ready forcible detachment or removal of the push pins as required for use.

As shown, the points 4 of the push pins are thrust into the edges of the block disposed in the recesses 2 so that their shanks 5 completely penetrate the block 1 with only the heads 6 of the push pins protruding from the bottom edges of the recess. The block 1 of the present invention is so constructed that the edges thereof form projections 7 on each side of the recesses 2 with the recesses being of such depth that the projections extend only slightly beyond or are substantially flush with the line presented by the tops of the heads of the push pins. Thus, in general appearance, the entire package presents a virtually unbroken line along the sides thereof and the push pins themselves may not be bent, or otherwise damaged, because of the protection afforded thereto by the projections.

In the preferred form of the invention, the block 1 is constructed of sufiicient thickness so as to closely approximate the diameter of the base 8 of the heads of the push pins. Thus, any forces along the faces of the block will be substantially prevented from ejecting the push pins from the block itself. The package as a unit, is attractive and compact, presenting the unbroken lines as aforesaid.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the block has recesses on either side thereof for the insertion of the push pins for the purposes set forth above. Fig. 4 shows a smaller package for the carrying of a lesser number of push pins with a recess for the insertion of the push pins being present on only one side thereof, but nevertheless, performing the same function as the block shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

If desired, an openended enveloping sleeve 9 of paper, cellophane, or the like, may be placed over the entire package as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In the preferred form, the enveloping sleeve is placed over the package so that the closed sides thereof engage the recessed sides of the block and the push pins 3 therein. This sleeve will thus be additional protection against the casual displacement or loss of the push pins. It may also be used for the placing thereon of addresses or advertising material in shipment.

It will be seen from the foregoing that I have provided in a highly satisfactory manner, a simple, yet efficient, economical and attractive package for carrying push pins and the like, which will prevent their being damaged in shipment and in handling.

Variations and modifications may be made within the scope of the claims and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

I claim:

1. A package of push pins comprising a block having a thickness to receive by penetration into at least one edge the pointed shanks of said pins and removably hold the same with the heads projecting from said edge; and a plurality of push pins arranged in a row side-by-side and having their shanks imbedded in said one edge of the block, the heads of the pins being disposed closely adjacent said edge and said block having extensions project- 3 ing laterally therefrom at the ends of said edge for a distance approximately equal to the lengths of the heads of the push pins, said extensions forming guards at the ends of the row of push pins carried by said edge.

2. A package of push pins comprising a carrier consisting of a rectangular block of penetrable material having recesses in opposite edges thereof, a plurality of push pins supported by said block in each of said recessed portions with their shanks penetrating the material of the block and their heads engaging the bottom of the recessed portions, said recessed portions having such depth that the edges of the sides of the block which are recessed are substantially flush with the outer ends of the heads of the push pins mounted in said recesses and the thickness of the block being approximately equal the diameter of said heads.

3. The invention as defined in claim 2 in which the package also includes an open-ended enveloping sleeve, the closed sides of which engage the recessed sides of the block and the push pins therein, and prevent casual displacement or loss of the push pins.

4. A package of push pins comprising a carrier consisting of a rectangular block of penetrable material having a recess in at least one edge thereof, and a plurality of push pins supported by said block in said recess with their shanks penetrating the material of the block and their heads engaging the bottom of the recess, said recess having such depth that the edge of the sides of the block which are recessed is substantially flush with the outer ends of the heads of the push pins mounted in said recess and the thickness of the block being approximately equal to the diameter of said heads.

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